2025 Annual Meeting, Friends of Cherokee Marsh
Sat, Jan 25
|Warner Park Community Recreation Center
Friends and Parks updates, board election, plus learn fascinating things about Wisconsin's native mussels!
Time & Location
Jan 25, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Warner Park Community Recreation Center , 1625 Northport Dr, Madison, WI 53704, USA
About the event
We'll begin with a business meeting to review 2024, look forward to 2025, and elect directors for 2025-2026. Election information is below in this newsletter.
Paul Quinlan from Madison Parks and Claire Lamberg from Dane County Parks will update us on news, happenings, and opportunities in parks.
Our special guest presenter will be Lisie Kitchel, Conservation Biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and expert on Wisconsin's native mussels. Kitchel has been working with mussels since the 1970s and has an encyclopedic knowledge of Wisconsin's native species, their unique biology, their filtration services in fresh waters, and their history feeding Wisconsin button factories and Japanese pearl growers. Wartybacks, white heelsplitters, plain pocketbooks, and pimplebacks are among the colorful names of the 50 mussel species in our state. But, nearly half of Wisconsin's mussel species are endangered, threatened, or of special concern, meaning their populations are low or declining.
We hope to see you at the meeting!